false 3290869 1  <div>Write Beside Them <em>debuts as the field's most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on high school writing. Kittle not only <span>tells how a skillful writing teacher operates, she shows you on the accompanying DVD, with clips of kids at work in every stage of a writing workshop. And all this glorious teaching happens with real, sometimes struggling kids who remind us of our own classrooms and students.</span></em> Write Beside Them <i>is the whole package.</i></div><div align="right"><b> - Harvey Daniels</b></div><div align="right">Author of <i>Content-Area Writing</i> and <i>Subjects Matter</i></div><div> </div><div>What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. <i>Write Beside Them </i>shows you how to do it. It's the comprehensive book and DVD that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing. </div><div> </div><div>Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section of <i>Write Beside Them </i>describes a specific element of Kittle's workshop:</div><ul> <li><b>Daily writing practice:</b> writer's notebooks and quick writes </li> <li><b>Instructional frameworks:</b> minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts </li> <li><b>Genre work:</b> narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres </li> <li><b>Skills work:</b> grammar, punctuation, and style </li> <li><b>Assessment:</b> evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading. </li></ul><div>All along the way, Kittle demonstrates minilessons that respond to students' immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition, <i>Write Beside Them</i> provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the accompanying DVD takes you right inside Penny's classroom. Its video clips explicitly model how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids.</div><div> </div><div>Penny Kittle's active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read <i>Write Beside Them </i>and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher.</div> 3327355 9 5 2008 Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing total:27|5:21|4:4|3:1|2:1|1:0| 27 126 56 13 5 1 false false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 14:08:34 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 02:13:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 17:28:55 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 20 14:59:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 12:54:49 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 12:57:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 15 08:37:01 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:40:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:53:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 20:11:31 -0700 2009
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